"I don't smoke or drink, you know...because I think they're drugs. And yet I fancy all hobbies, like my camera and bicycle, are drugs too... Drugging myself with speed and sunshine and fatigue and fresh air. Pedaling the machine so fast that I turn into a machine myself. That's the matter with all of us. We're too busy to wake up." - G. K. Chesterton, Manalive

I read through 2/3 of Manalive this afternoon and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. I thought I liked Chesterton before, but oh man, reading one of his novels--I'm loving it. One more fave quote:

"I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him--only to bring him to life." ahh! So good.